Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer PresidentAllen C. Guelzo, Henry R Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Allen C Guelzo W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999 - 516 páginas This major biography of Abraham Lincoln has won the prestigious Lincoln Prize, the annual award given to the best book in the Civil War field. Guelzo's superb work breaks new ground in exploring the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him for the first time as a serious thinker deeply involved in the struggles of nineteenth-century thought. |
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When President Taylor died in July , 1850 , Lincoln was asked to deliver the
eulogy at a Whig memorial meeting in Chicago , praising Taylor for having
offered the perfect solution to the slave extension question — " the one great
question of ...
When President Taylor died in July , 1850 , Lincoln was asked to deliver the
eulogy at a Whig memorial meeting in Chicago , praising Taylor for having
offered the perfect solution to the slave extension question — " the one great
question of ...
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We will not have peace upon the question until the opponents of slavery arrest
the further spread of it , and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief
that it is in the course of ultimate extinction , " something which the Kansas ...
We will not have peace upon the question until the opponents of slavery arrest
the further spread of it , and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief
that it is in the course of ultimate extinction , " something which the Kansas ...
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Under cloudy skies and before a packed audience of over 15,000 , Lincoln laid
out a series of four questions for ... knew that Douglas had in fact already more or
less answered the second question " a hundred times from every stump in Illinois
...
Under cloudy skies and before a packed audience of over 15,000 , Lincoln laid
out a series of four questions for ... knew that Douglas had in fact already more or
less answered the second question " a hundred times from every stump in Illinois
...
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Crítica de los usuarios - twatson79 - LibraryThingVery engaging biography on Lincoln, detailing his philosophy, religiosity, and general thought life. Guelzo does well in showing Lincoln to be a man of deep convictions as well as showing how those ... Leer comentario completo
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The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President Library of religious biography |
| Autores | Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Allen C Guelzo |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 19 Sep. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802838723, 9780802838728 |
| Largo | 516 páginas |
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